RE: Dilution fears alleviated27 Apr 2025 13:04
Bella I'd be disappointed with a $10bn offer. I think it's worth much more than that. Licensing for targeting cancer tumours out-with Avacta's own stable of conditions their drugs target is huge. Lots of BP with patent cliff edges in the next few years plus the huge potential of Exatecan which looks incredible. We've already licensed it out to POINT for a radio therapy. When you look at the cancers this can be applied to from the Avacta March presentation on P8 it lists the number of patients per year for each of only five cancer sites. Taking only the lowest numbers for each condition listed, (there are obviously others to which it might apply) It's over a million patients each year multiplied by the $175,000 supposed cost for the treatment it's very, very big numbers. I think part of the reason BP haven't approached is the size and scale of this deal potential and therefore why rush because if it's wrong that is a stratospheric error. Both sides want more data imo, Avacta to maximise deal value, BP to make sure they're not buying a pup.
Even if you took just ten per cent of those patients allowing for time to approval (which looks as if will be much shorter with the new FDA commissioner), the numbers are very big. $10bn would be a snip. Plus it's what is it worth to big pharma those that a losing patents and therefore opening up to competition, reducing their income drastically in some cases, those that don't currently have much to shout about in this space, this would be a game changer for them. So lots of suitors vying for this. It isn't the cost of having it, it's the cost of not having it.